Hacking Team Android App Could Bypass Google Play Code Review

“Security researchers at Trend Micro’s Trend Labs have uncovered a trick in a sample of a fake news application for Android created by the network exploitation tool provider Hacking Team that may have allowed the company’s customers to sneak spyware through the Google Play store’s code review. While the application in question may have only been downloaded fewer than 50 times from Google Play, the technique may have been used in other Android apps developed for Hacking Team customers–and may now be copied by others trying to get malware onto Android devices.” OSNews readers would have never fallen for this ruse, since the name of the app was BeNews. Once we noticed there was nothing about BeOS in these, we discern its nefarious intent.